I agree.

 

I could go on and on and on about flaws in the newspaper industry and why it is failing but the bottom line is the Internet mostly levels the playing field and in many cases works against larger, established businesses.

 

On tangent, think of what the Internet did to the music industry.

 

Agreed on all accounts. You either embrace new technology or it will swallow you whole. The internet also exposed the inherent bias in journalism . People now consume news with companies who admit the bias. It's insane to me people actually believed for decades journalist didn't have a bias. They are human like the rest of us and have opinions.

You may not have much interest in local government, but local government supplies the police that keep you safe. Local government maintains the streets you drive on. Local government picks up your trash. Local government handles the zoning that means you don't have a pig farm in your subdivision. You may not have much interest in local government but I would suggest that there is no level of government that is more important to your daily life.

 

Not to mention control over the school system, the power to tax and create other assessments.........and to generally affect the quality life in a community.

To each their own. Local government has very little importance to me.

 

Ditto.

LexHerald and Courier Journal reap what they sew. It will be a sad day when they are gone.

Henderson's Gleaner use to be a pretty good smaller town paper. When they were bought out years ago it went downhill quick. Today it's garbage. Anything that happens after about 8:00PM isn't even in the next day's edition. They print the paper in Louisville so the deadline is really early. They've reduced the size and content on top of that. You can't cut services, increasing pricing and expect people to keep paying.

Henderson's Gleaner use to be a pretty good smaller town paper. When they were bought out years ago it went downhill quick. Today it's garbage. Anything that happens after about 8:00PM isn't even in the next day's edition. They print the paper in Louisville so the deadline is really early. They've reduced the size and content on top of that. You can't cut services, increasing pricing and expect people to keep paying.

 

It is called "dumb-sizing".

Newspapers are useless these days.

 

I can't think of a single reason to waste hard earned money on one. JMO. :idunno:

 

I use the paper for (1) The Sunday crossword puzzle and (2) to help get the fire pit going. The papers are what they are. Not much to them

Anymore and not worth the price in my opinion.

Gannett in Cincinnati has been on this track for at least 10 years, probably more. I have a friend who works for them. The last ten years his job has been at risk. At one point they actually laid him off, but within a short time realized they couldn't do it without him and had him come back. He is doing the job of several individuals, knows his luck will eventually run out, and often has to tell people they have eliminated their jobs. He works horrendous hours. Yet he is able to maintain a good spirit.

 

Some company is going to get a good man when he decides to- or is forced to move on.

 

The internet has done a number on print media. I much prefer to hold a paper or magazine in my hand to read it. I also subscribe to magazines that I like to return to in the future. I much prefer print to internet.

Basically the only groups covering local government around the country very well at all. Once they're gone, a big check on local government goes with them. For that reason alone, I'll keep at least my digital subscription until the day they stop running stories.

 

Bingo! Print media of all sort has been decline for many years...really since the advent of personal computers and the web. I was in the book printing business for many years, and other than children's books and elementary/high school books, that volume eroded immensely. Reference volumes have virtually disappeared along with decreases in the volume of trade books. On one hand, it is the passing of an age, but it is also more environmentally friendly to reduce paper consumption and waste that goes along with it.

Lexington Herald-Leader is in a death spiral. The big hit to daily home delivery came when they moved print operations to Louisville. So the print version would only have news from 7 p.m. or earlier from the day before. That really hurt sports coverage and killed HS football coverage. They moved football to Sunday - really making it worthless.

 

I cut back to only the Sunday print version and each time I try to drop it they get me to stay by dropping the price. Down to $50 a year for the Sunday print and the online daily.

 

I think the local 'papers' are losing out because they gave up the local beats. They are giving up their relevancy by using national feeds on national topics - usually politica - to fill up the front section of the paper. There is no dedicated 'local' or 'metro' section as there was years ago. And when it comes to sport the Lexington Herald Leader has 5-6 people covering UK but only one person covering HS. And they never cover Transylvania, EKU or KSU. So they are competing with new age media like KSR and CatsPause for UK eyeballs while completely ignoring a market that has no competition. That is just bad business.

 

LHL will probably die before C-J. It seems actual print is definitely on its last legs.

The highlight of my old lab's day was me sending her down the driveway to fetch the newspaper. Sometimes the Sunday paper would be a bit too much and would end up in sections on the driveway. Since she has gone, I no longer have an interest in the printed version, but I agree with several on here, especially the local papers provided information about local government and events that would be hard to know about otherwise. I do enjoy going with Mrs. doomer to the library on the weekend, and I will go through the back issues of the newspapers they keep there.

Basically the only groups covering local government around the country very well at all. Once they're gone, a big check on local government goes with them. For that reason alone, I'll keep at least my digital subscription until the day they stop running stories.

 

Local television coverage has taken over much of what the papers covered regarding local government. Each station has it's own investigative journalism team.

 

With Facebook, Twitter, and other forms of social media (like this one), my belief is that the government is more exposed to the public than ever before. One step out of line and a person with a cell phone can make it go viral.

I think the media has hurt itself with their constant desire to be first. If you want to stay on top of the news all you have to do is follow the local reporters on Twitter or Facebook. You'll know what they are writing about long before you'd ever get a chance to read it in a paper you have to purchase.

I think the media has hurt itself with their constant desire to be first. If you want to stay on top of the news all you have to do is follow the local reporters on Twitter or Facebook. You'll know what they are writing about long before you'd ever get a chance to read it in a paper you have to purchase.

 

True. It is a 240 character society. Too many people don't want any more information than that and want to jump to their own conclusions about the rest of a story. Social media is the mother and father of fake news. The main stream media has crawled right into that dark hole with them and diminished their credibility.

True. It is a 240 character society. Too many people don't want any more information than that and want to jump to their own conclusions about the rest of a story. Social media is the mother and father of fake news. The main stream media has crawled right into that dark hole with them and diminished their credibility.

 

I disagree. The main stream media created and fostered what is called fake news. Anybody remember Dan Rather? Social media has done quite a bit to exposed it as such, as well as exploit it.